While the little rhyme above is popular among those who are unwillingly forced to learn Latin, aspiring and eager Latin students may perhaps instead prefer Veni, vidi, vici–Caesar’s famous saying, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” But Christians submit to Christ before Casear-so they are more likely to value Ego sum via et veritas et vita (John 14:6) far more highly than veni, vidi, vici-Christ’s “I am the way, the truth, and the life” above Caesar’s bloody conquests? What if, while viewing as valuable arma virumque cano-Virgil’s “Arms and the man I sing,” the conquests of the “pious” Greek and Roman war hero-and idolatrous fornicator-Aeneas, they would rather learn Christ’s in me pacem habeatis (John 16:33), “in Me ye may have peace”? Or what if they recognize the value of classical Latin to Western civilization, but they wish to learn both Christian and classical Latin at the same time, instead of only focusing on classical pagan authors to the exclusion of the writers of Christendom? A person who was alive when he invented this saying First it killed the Romans, now it’s killing me.” “Latin is dead, dead, dead as dead can be.
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